Sen. Hirono: I Would Support Bringing Back the Talking Filibuster

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HIRONO: "There are two voting rights bill. One is the Voting Rights Act. We can call it that. The other is the John Lewis Voting Rights bill. I think the John Lewis bill is really, really important because that’s going to give the department of attorney general the tools to fight back against these voter suppression bills. Here’s what I’d like to see happen at this point. I’m not even talking about eliminating the filibuster, which I support. I would support bringing back, really, the talking filibuster, which is something that Joe Manchin supported earlier. So if you’re going to be that one person to halt everything, you should get on the floor of the Senate and hold that floor for however many hours you can so that the American people will know who is the person that’s stopping, in my view, voter protection legislation."